Word: teething
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into the goat house...
Japanese census takers, nosing around in the northern mountains of their country, discovered a village, unmentioned by maps, containing 152 inhabitants, none of whom had ever heard of the outside world. They wore clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...young continents earthquakes come relatively more often than hic-coughs to children. Therefore, last week, Japanese seismologists prowled about the recent earthquake area (TIME, March 14) with the optimistic smiles of family doctors. They know that the Japanese Islands are still rising from the sea, like so many teeth pushing up through infant gums...
Albert Frick lay propped on the hospital bed, languid, breathing by hand. He had felt miserable; had had a couple of teeth pulled at the dentist's. Going home to his rooming-house in Evanston, Ill., outside Chicago, muggy-minded, dazed, a motor car had hit him, hurt the back of his neck a trifle. Now he was in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston...
...boys in a Hallowe'en cabbage patch, Dr. Arnold Sack's assistants at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, twisted the blackened heads off his Egyptian mummies so that he could better study them for traces of ancient afflictions. The oldest skulls, now weazened and leather-covered, showed teeth in perfect condition. People of 4,000 to 6,000 years ago ate coarse foods which prevented dental decay. But by the time of the Christian Era, Egyptian life was luxurious, food was soft. Consequently tooth decay was as prevalent as today. One batch of 500 mummies showed at least...